Read and write. That’s the recipe for being a writer.

Learning to read is one of the most extraordinary gifts you’ll ever receive, so open up God’s Word and read the most extraordinary book ever written.

Poetry is not the most important thing in life… I’d much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.

And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.

Books on the bookshelvesAnd stacked on the floorBooks kept in basketsAnd propped by the doorBooks in neat pilesAnd in disarrayBooks tucked in closetsAnd books on displayBooks filling cranniesAnd books packed in nooksBooks massed in windowsAnd...

I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn’t give what I crave: ecstasy, transcendence, a thrill of mysterious connection. For, more...

My books, my paradise!

It is a night for reading.

I certainly couldn’t have survived my childhood without books. All that deprivation and pain–abuse, broken home, a runaway sister, a brother with cancer–the books allowed me to withstand. They sustained me. I read still, prolifically,...

They’re book addicts.

After one has read everything and thought everything, one still have everything to learn.

When you travel, buy a historical book about the place, read to increase your knowledge on the beautiful places of the world.

The zeal to pray and desire to read the scriptures can transform many lives.

A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.

Reading is a time machine that allows you to acquire wisdom from the past and to analyze and imagine another person’s vision of the future.

I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old bindings, and stars in margins next to beautiful passages. I love exuberant underlinings...

Reading Is Very Powerful…. It Gives You The Illusion To See The Past, Present, Future And Even Seeing The Invisible…. So READ….

I look at every book as a self-help book.

When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for ‘From Dusk Till Dawn,’ but I actually didn’t know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez.

I love reading other people’s diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf’s – such a formidable woman that it’s a revelation when she shows you a more vulnerable side of herself.

I read daily, not so much for the benefit of my writing, but because I am addicted to it. There is nothing in the world for me that compares to being lost in a really...

I was there to get a Ph.D. in English literature. That’s not true. I was there to read a lot of books and to discuss them with bright, insightful, book-loving people, an expectation that I...

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

You are what you eat and read.

People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline…The motion of the train makes her head rattle, but her eyes lock on the words the...

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art.

The modern idea of testing a reader’s “comprehension,” as distinct from something else a reader may be doing, would have seemed an absurdity in 1790 or 1830 or 1860. What else was reading but comprehending?

La lecture de tous les bons livres est comme une conversation avec les plus honnêtes gens des siècles passés.

Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.

In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the...

I’ve been reading a lot about Silicon Valley history recently and was struck by just how core the lack of unions has been to the American tech industry’s evolution. It’s enabled the constant creative destruction...

The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape...

Keep on reading, thinking, doing and writing! Words keep introducing their friends to you.

I tried to convey to the boy how people’s lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.

Books are health food for your brain and dessert for your soul. Books are one of the few proven sources of mental exercise known to man. Reading is a workout for your mind. If your...

Lire est un voyage. On ne peut pas arriver avant d’être parti. On ne peut pas partir sans avoir envie d’arriver. Mais : être entre ! Là, réside le vrai délice : le parcours. La...

Bibliothèque Nationale. Ich sitze und lese einen Dichter. Es sind viele Leute im Saal, aber man spürt sie nicht. Sie sind in den Büchern. Manchmal bewegen sie sich in den Blättern, wie Menschen, die schlafen...

A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to.

I was very fond of strange stories when I was a child. In my village-school days, I used to buy stealthily popular novels and historical recitals. Fearing that my father and my teacher might punish...

People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which...

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Oh? And what’s so stinking about it?.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

Life is not about less mistakes but about more trials

But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see…...

Love is staring into someone’s eyes, and not being able to imagine more

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.